Humanity overall here now
Struggles to find its balance
From emotional attachments
To detaching in responsibility
And realize cause and effect
A big step in consciousness
Understanding thus grows
Identity and power let go
Personalities of all sorts
Duality of one or another
Followers need their leaders
Students have many teachers
Slaves end up with masters
Thus the pendulum swings
With words and images
Our unfoldment as soul
Learning responsibility
We start as individual
That is as human being
Within humanity here now
Not enough but something
In the given limited window
To keep our relative comfort
Because nature always prevails
The question remains most simple
Will it be with or without humanity
And everything that goes with it
Leading to the ultimate wish
May all be well and happy!
“From red line to white plane” — a serene transition
Humanity overall expedient or definite
Instead of looking at the moon,
fools stare at its reflection in the water;
not finding the true sage,
fools follow the ignorant.
Rather than following the teacher,
follow the teachings.
Do not rely on the letter of the law,
but on its meaning.
Do not rely on the expedient meaning,
but the definite meaning.
— by Smriti Jnana, tenth-century Indian teacher and translator — The snow lion’s turquoise mane, Surya Das, pp. 59-60
Humanity’s race for expediency is stalling
